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A worried researcher has created a tool to demonstrate exactly how much of a security backdoor Microsoft is creating with Recall.
Learn about critical threats that can impact your organization and the bad actors behind them from Cybersixgill’s threat experts. Each story shines a light on underground activities, the threat actors involved, and why you should care, along with what you can do to mitigate risk. In an increasingly interconnected world, supply chain attacks have emerged as a formidable threat, compromising
ZeroMark wants to build a system that will let soldiers easily shoot a drone out of the sky with the weapons they’re already carrying—and venture capital firm a16z is betting the startup can pull it off.
Tom works for a reputable financial institution. He has a long, complex password that would be near-impossible to guess. He’s memorized it by heart, so he started using it for his social media accounts and on his personal devices too. Unbeknownst to Tom, one of these sites has had its password database compromised by hackers and put it up for sale on the dark web. Now threat actors are working
Threat actors are increasingly abusing legitimate and commercially available packer software such as BoxedApp to evade detection and distribute malware such as remote access trojans and information stealers. "The majority of the attributed malicious samples targeted financial institutions and government industries," Check Point security researcher Jiri Vinopal said in an analysis. The volume of
Google has announced plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of their Google account effective December 1, 2024. The changes were originally announced by the tech giant in December 2023, alongside changes to the auto-delete control when enabling Location History by setting it to three months by default, down from the previous limit of 18 months. Google Maps Timeline,
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that's designed to deliver an information stealer called Lumma (aka LummaC2). The package in question is crytic-compilers, a typosquatted version of a legitimate library named crytic-compile. The rogue package was downloaded 441 times before it was taken down by PyPI
The concept of security by design, which includes the concept of security by default, is not new. In fact, secure by design is considered one of the fundamental principles of secure development. In general, we say there is security by design or security by default when, from the user's point of view, security is included and enabled without doing anything specific or changing the factory configurations. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently developed this concept further, and at Red Hat we are embracing it in our products and cloud services.Secure by default pro
Changing systems passwords is a common task that all systems administrators must do to keep up with all the latest security policies. Now with secrets being managed by the secrets management system, we need a way to integrate with that to keep and manage all the secrets safe while updating the systems passwords in a secure, safe and automated way to stay compliant with all the rules and regulations.Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform makes this easy; there are so many ready-made playbook examples available to update any managed platform, such as Linux, Windows and many network devices. ht